Steven Shiau has announced the release of Clonezilla Live 2.4.5-20, a new stable version of the specialist Debian-based live CD with utilities for hard disk cloning and backup tasks: "This release of Clonezilla Live (2.4.5-20) includes major enhancements and bug fixes: the underlying GNU/Linux operating system has been upgraded, this release is based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2016-02-03; Linux kernel has been updated to 4.3.3; since Linux kernel version 4, the default Unionfs file system has been changed to overlay, therefore if you edit boot parameter manually, you have to use 'union=overlay'; due to the Linux kernel change in the Debian repository, the i586 kernel is no longer available, so the Debian-based Clonezilla Live is now only released with 3 architectures - i686, i686-pae and amd64; Partclone has been updated to 0.2.87 and a FAT16 issue has been fixed; a new file system, Nilfs2, is supported in this release...." Continue to the release announcement to read the rest of the changelog. Download (MD5) links: clonezilla-live-2.4.5-20-amd64.iso (180MB), clonezilla-live-2.4.5-20-i686-pae.iso (183MB), clonezilla-live-2.4.5-20-i686.iso (183MB).

Clonezilla Live is a Debian-based live CD containing Clonezilla, a partition and disk cloning software similar to Norton Ghost. It saves and restores only used blocks in hard drive. With Clonezilla, one can clone a 5 GB system to 40 clients in about 10 minutes.

Steven Shiau has announced the release of Clonezilla Live 2.5.0-5, a new stable version of the project's Debian-based live CD containing specialist tools designed for disk cloning and backup tasks: "This release of Clonezilla Live (2.5.0-5) includes major enhancements and bug fixes. Enhancements and changes: the underlying GNU/Linux operating system has been upgraded, this release is based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2016-11-22; Linux kernel has been updated to 4.8.7; p7zip-full, sysstat and iftop packages have been added; the ca_ES language file has been updated; update gen-rec-iso by adding option -k1 in ocs-sr. Bug fixes: choose 'Enter_shell' should not give any error; timezone issue; remove partprobe command after ocs-scan-disk, sometimes it delays the GPT partition to be shown in /proc/partitions." Here is the brief release announcement as published on the project's mailing list. Download (SHA512) one of the live CD images from SourceForge: clonezilla-live-2.5.0-5-amd64.iso (192MB, pkglist), clonezilla-live-2.5.0-5-i686.iso (193MB), clonezilla-live-2.5.0-5-i686-pae.iso (193MB).

Steven Shiau has announced the release of Clonezilla Live 2.4.9-17, the latest stable version of the project's specialist Debian-based distribution designed for disk cloning and backups: "This release of Clonezilla Live (2.4.9-17) includes major enhancements and bug fixes. Enhancements and changes: the underlying GNU/Linux operating system has been upgraded, this release is based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2016-10-21; Linux kernel has been updated to 4.7.8; removed 'nodmraid' from boot parameters in drbl-ocs.conf, fakeraid and firmware raid are supported now; updated language files hu_HU, ja_JP.UTF-8, de_DE, fr_FR, it_IT and es_ES; the drbl Clonezilla Live version information will be in /etc/ocs/ocs-live.conf and when an image is saved, the information will be saved in Info-packages.txt; applied patches from Aaron Burling, so now when mounting image repository, it is able to browse the directories recursively; force dhclient timeout at 60 seconds...." Continue to the release announcement to read the long list of enhancements and bug fixes. Download (SHA512): clonezilla-live-2.4.9-17-amd64.iso (188MB, pkglist), clonezilla-live-2.4.9-17-i686.iso (188MB), clonezilla-live-2.4.9-17-i686-pae.iso (188MB).

Steven Shiau has announced the release of a new version of the Clonezilla Live disk cloning software. The new release, Clonezilla Live 2.4.6-25, is based on Debian's Unstable (Sid) branch and features version 4.5.4 of the Linux kernel. "This release of Clonezilla Live (2.4.6-25) includes minor enhancements and bug fixes. Enhancements and changes: the underlying GNU/Linux operating system has been upgraded, this release is based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2016-05-29; Linux kernel has been updated to 4.5.4; Partclone has been updated to 0.2.88; some segfault issues have been fixed; added support for boot parameter 'ocs_preload*', it can be used to fetch tarall/zip/sh files from http(s), ftp, tftp, and local URL, then extracted to /opt/; adde package dos2unix; added watch ocs-scan-disk for local block device in prep-ocsroot; make ocs-install-grub work on openSUSE 'Leap'." A full list of changes and bug fixes can be found in the release announcement. Download (SHA512): clonezilla-live-2.4.6-25-amd64.iso (183MB, pkglist), clonezilla-live-2.4.6-25-i686.iso (185MB), clonezilla-live-2.4.6-25-i686-pae.iso (185MB).

Steven Shiau has announced the release of Clonezilla Live 2.4.2-61, the latest stable build of the project's Debian-based live CD for cloning and restoring images of hard disks and hard disk partitions: "This release of Clonezilla Live (2.4.2-61) includes major enhancements and bug fixes: the underlying GNU/Linux operating system has been upgraded, this release is based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2015-10-12; the Linux kernel has been updated to version 4.2.3; starting from Linux kernel 4.x, the default Unionfs file system has been changed to overlay, therefore if you edit boot parameter manually, you have to use 'union=overlay' and not 'union=aufs'; Partclone has been updated to 0.2.83 and the XFS issue fixed; the util-linux package has been updated to 2.27; other NIC names, like enp*, will be searched in ocs-live-netcfg; the zerofree package has been added; proportional GPT partition layout can be created with the '-k1' option...." Read the rest of the release announcement for a complete changelog. Download (MD5) links: clonezilla-live-2.4.2-61-amd64.iso (178MB, pkglist), clonezilla-live-2.4.2-61-i686-pae.iso (179MB), clonezilla-live-2.4.2-61-i586.iso (178MB).

Steven Shiau has announced the availability of a new version of Clonezilla Live. The Clonezilla distribution is a Debian-based live disc for manipulating, copying and restoring images of hard disks and disk partitions. The new release, Clonezilla Live 2.4.2-10, offers bug fixes for restoring partitions on machines with UEFI support and cloning swap partitions on disks with GPT layouts. There are also a number of new features and package upgrades: "The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian's 'Sid' repository as of 2015-06-08; Linux kernel has been updated to 4.0.2; the default Unionfs file system has been changed to overlay, therefore if you edit boot parameter manually, you have to use 'union=overlay', no more using 'union=aufs'; switched to use systemd instead of SysVInit, following the way in upstream; switched to use live-config v4, all boot parameters should remain the same; Partclone has been updated to 0.2.78...." Further details can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (MD5): clonezilla-live-2.4.2-10-amd64.iso (173MB, pkglist).

Steven Shiau has announced the release of Clonezilla Live 2.3.2-22, the latest stable version of the project's specialist live CD, based on Debian's "unstable" branch, designed for disk cloning: "This release of Clonezilla Live (2.3.2-22) includes major enhancements and bug fixes: the underlying GNU/Linux operating system has been upgraded, this release is based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2015-02-17; Linux kernel has been updated to 3.16.7; the bindfs and ntpdate packages have been added; Partclone has been updated to 0.2.76, partclone-utils to 0.3.1; the drbl package has been updated to 2.13.7, Clonezilla to 3.13.29; syslinux has been updated to 6.03; an encryption mechanism for Clonezilla image files has been added; a boot parameter, "ocs_dmesg_n", has been added so that it can be used to set the level at which logging of messages is done to the console, if not set it hides all messages, except emergency (panic) messages; the image repository can now be on a WebDAV server...." Here is the complete release announcement. Download (SHA256, pkglist): clonezilla-live-2.3.2-22-amd64.iso (163MB), clonezilla-live-2.3.2-22-i686-pae.iso (163MB), clonezilla-live-2.3.2-22-i486.iso (162MB).

Steven Shiau has announced the release of a new stable version of Clonezilla Live, a Debian-based specialist live CD designed for disk cloning and file backup tasks: "This release of Clonezilla Live (2.3.1-18) includes major enhancements and bug fixes: the underlying GNU/Linux operating system has been upgraded, this release is based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2014-12-08; Linux kernel has been updated to 3.16.7; the drbl package has been updated to 2.11.13 and Clonezilla to 3.12.7; syslinux has been updated to 6.03; a mechanism has been added to check if i386 library (libc6-i386 or glibc.i686) exists on x86-64 system when running makeboot.sh due to the fact that syslinux included in Clonezilla Live is 32-bit; Linux kernel i486 has been replaced by i586 because now only i586 kernel exists in the Debian 'Sid' repository...." Read the full release announcement for more details. Download (SHA256, pkglist): clonezilla-live-2.3.1-18-amd64.iso (162MB), clonezilla-live-2.3.1-18-i686-pae.iso (162MB), clonezilla-live-2.3.1-18-i486.iso (161MB).

Steven Shiau has released a new stable version of Clonezilla Live, a Debian-based specialist live CD designed for disk cloning and backup tasks: "This release of Clonezilla live (2.2.4-12) includes major enhancements and bug fixes. Enhancements and changes: the underlying GNU/Linux operating system has been upgraded, this release is based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2014-09-15; Linux kernel has updated to 3.16.2; the Partclone package has been updated to 0.2.73 with new support for f2fs and updated exfat lib; drbl has been updated to 2.9.2; Clonezilla has been updated to 3.10.33; syslinux has been updated to 6.03-pre20; added f2fs-tools, iw, davfs2, fstransform and rfkill; Turkish language files have been added. Bug fixes: the vmwgfx.enable_fbdev=1 instead of vmwgfx.enable_fbdev=no is used in boot parameters; now we use vesafb instead of uvesafb in both Debian-based and Ubuntu-based Clonezilla Live." Here is the brief release announcement. Download (SHA256): clonezilla-live-2.2.4-12-amd64.iso (148MB, pkglist), clonezilla-live-2.2.4-12-i686-pae.iso (146MB), clonezilla-live-2.2.4-12-i486.iso (147MB).

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